Diabetes in a TB and HIV-endemic South African population: Analysis of a virtual cohort using routine health data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is widely accepted that people living with diabetes (PLWD) are at increased risk of infectious disease, yet there is a paucity of epidemiology studies on the relationship between diabetes and infectious disease in SSA. In a region with a high burden of infectious disease, this has serious consequences for PLWD.

Methods and findings

Using routinely collected longitudinal health data, we describe the epidemiology of diabetes in a large virtual cohort of PLWD who have a high burden of HIV and TB, from the Khayelitsha subdistrict in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. We described the relationship between previous TB, newly diagnosed TB disease and HIV infection on diabetes using HbA1c results as an outcome measure. The study population was predominately fem

SUBMITTER: Tamuhla T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8104376 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature